A piano for Padua
Franz Schubert6 Moments musicaux D 780 op. 94
Johannes Brahms Sonata op. 1
Franz Liszt Consolation n. 3 S 172 Étude de Concert – n. 1 “The Lament” S 144
Sergei Prokofiev Sonata no. 7 op. 83
Elisso Virsaladze’s return to Padua, after the concerts on 17 November 2021 and 2 March 2023 with the David Oistrach Quartet, is always an event.
For enthusiasts, Elisso Virsaladze is a mythical name, with a prestigious career: winner of the Schumann Competition in Zwickau, teacher at the Moscow Conservatory and at the Musikhochschule in Munich, today also in Fiesole, partner of the cellist N. Gutman and of conductors such as J. Temirkanov, R. Muti, W. Sawallisch, K. Kondrashin, A. Pappano with the largest orchestras.
Raised in a family in Tbilisi that had been involved in the art and culture of Georgia for generations, Elisso Virsaladze took her first piano lessons from her grandmother, Prof. Anastasia Virsaladze and continued her studies at the local Conservatory, before move to Moscow to follow the courses of Yakov Zak and Heinrich Neuhaus. A school, the latter, which also included Sviatoslav Richter among its students, attentive to the spiritual values of music, to the poetry of interpretation and execution, rather than to piano performance as an end in itself.
Richter himself always testified to his greatest admiration for what was for him “the best female pianist”, “an artist of great nobility”, “Schumann’s interpreter of excellence”.
